Linsanity By now, it is likely you have heard of “Linsanity”. If you haven’t, Linsanity is the nickname that has been properly given to the young point guard for the New York Knicks – Jeremy Lin. Jeremy Lin is the first Chinese American basketball player to ever play in the NBA and [...]

Alright, so you just got a brand new iPhone. There are hundreds of thousands of apps in the app store, and it can be baffling to find truly useful apps that will be worth downloading. This is my list of 5 apps that I highly recommend and use every single day. Tweetbot – Download | [...]

This morning I awoke with the great news that Starbucks Canada was going to begin to offer support for mobile payments in Canada. After Starbucks launched their “Gold Star” loyalty campaign a few weeks back in Mid-October, I’ve been waiting for an option like this, instead of having to use a clunky (unavoidable now a [...]

Hey everyone, I have been slacking lately with my posts as of late, but I have some exciting news! I’ll be honest, I’m  not a hardcore tennis fan, but I think you would have to be hiding under a rock in Toronto and have NOT heard of Milos Raonic ( @milosraonic ) Milos is the [...]

I’ve come across a lot of recent conversations on Twitter, and amongst friends that rock n roll is dead. And that the current breed of music has been far out classed by previous generations several times over. Now, from an overall perspective that could be true. But the purpose of this post is to provide [...]

Ok, maybe this title is a little too polar, I can’t guarantee you are going to fit in. But from my times in many internships and working at a variety of new businesses, it’s one of the best tricks I’ve picked up and its almost flawless in terms of fitting in with a new crowd [...]

With over 200 million tweets per day, Twitter has officially solidified  itself as a social media juggernaut. For those that were skeptics of social media as a tool that will stick, Twitter’s sheer adoption has pretty much put all of them to rest. I’ve been a frequent user of Twitter for roughly 2 years now, [...]

Erik Qualman, author of my favorite social media book “Socialnomics” is back with another rendition of his very well known infographic video “Social Media Revolution”. This is part 3, with some very new and insightful statistics, but also some very familiar ones as well. I’m thinking if you attend any social media conference in the [...]

Inspired by my last post on the face of the NHL – Sidney Crosby. I decided to do a share of voice comparison of some of the NHL’s biggest players, and measure just how large his online social presence is, and if his is the largest of some of the NHL’s most marquee names. Using [...]

Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins may be the most consistent performer that the NHL has ever seen (since of course the Great One, Wayne Gretzky). At the age of 23 he had won an NHL MVP, Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe and also, let’s not forget a Gold Medal at last year’s Winter Olympics in [...]